Merqusâq (ca. 1850-1916)

Authors

  • Guy Mary-Rousselière

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic2279

Keywords:

Artifacts, Biographies, Cannibalism, Expeditions, Explorers, History, Human migration, Inuit, Kayaks, Merqusâq, ca. 1850-1916, Polar Eskimos, Rasmussen, Knud Johan Victor, 1879-1933, Social change, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Devon Island, Greenland

Abstract

In 1903 when Knud Rasmussen, a member of Mylius-Erichsen's "Danish Litterary Expedition", visited the Polar Eskimos for the first time, he interviewed a man called Merqusâq, one of the last of a group of Baffin Island Inuit who had migrated north and crossed to Greenland half a century previously. [This profile describes the travails of Merqusâq and his people as they journeyed from Baffin Island to Greenland.]

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Published

1983-01-01

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Arctic Profiles